It seems that there’s a different vibe in The Jesus & Mary Chain camp since the release of Damage and Joy in March of this year; antagonism replaced with affability and scorn with humour. It’s in and around six months ago that the band visited The Academy with their first studio album in almost twenty years fresh off the presses, and tellingly on that outing it was Psychocandy material that made up the bulk of the setlist. Not so in Vicar Street – their seminal debut rears its head, but tonight’s is a much more rounded selection and the band…
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Drive By Truckers live at Vicar Street in Dublin. Photos by Moira Reilly
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Seattle indie-rock five-piece Band of Horses live at Dublin’s Vicar Street. Photos by Aaron Corr.
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Having last played the city back in 2014, it’s been announced that Atlanta, Georgia indie rock singer-songwriter Chan Marshall AKA Cat Power will play Dublin’s Vicar Street on Thursday, March 16. Tickets for the show are priced €30 and go on sale this Friday (February 10) at 9am.
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Bell X1 live at Vicar Street in Dublin. Photos by Pedro Giaquinto.
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Explosions in the Sky live at Vicar Street in Dublin with support from We Were Promised Jetpacks. Photos by Vincent Hughes.
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Django Django live at Vicar street in Dublin with support from Stealing Sheep. Photos by Mark Earley.
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As a preface-turned-thinkpiece, it’s probably important to note that I suffer from epilepsy and although I have my suspicions that this correlates with my connection to music, that hypothesis is probably, at best, pseudo-science. But then again, Neil Young – fellow epileptic – has, before even the diagnosis, been this writer’s favourite musician of all time, connecting in a way no other has before or since. Apart from, perhaps, the first time my teenage self heard Appetite For Destruction. That may seem a roundabout way of introducing a Kurt Vile review, but there’s an inescapable influence on those who channel…
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Richard Hawley live at Vicar Street in Dublin. Photos by Brian Mulligan.
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The legendary Randy Newman live at Vicar Street last night. Photos by Aaron Corr.